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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.

Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.

The biggest mistake is to assume that another writer's successful strategy will work for you, too. Publishers' marketers - and even freelance publicists who cost mega bucks - tend to do the same basic things for all books.

The one person who is the reason for all my success is my mom.

Any composer needs opportunities, but now these chances are based on personal relationships, and not on talent alone. For that, you must keep calling directors and keep them happy. So, PR plays a major part now, more than talent or success.

In the past 20 years of musical journey, what I realized is that one need to respect their teachers, elders and parents and their blessings are more than enough for one to reach success. I believe it as my success mantra.

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Success is something good, and something bad. I don't know if it's good to always go after success.

I do everything I can for the team's success.

Bayern are a club where success is demanded, and second place isn't particularly appreciated. We have a history and culture to respect.

Personal success means nothing if it isn't aligned with the success of the team. I consider myself to be a team player more than anything else.

People think this is a competition between bands, when the reality is the more successful bands the better.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

Success is not just about being a hard worker, it is about becoming a smart worker.

'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to fulfilment or success is not the obvious one. You must take twists and turns to achieve a goal.

Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.

Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

It's really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product. I'll take it a step further. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, 'I don't get it, I don't understand it. I think it's too weird, I think it's too unusual.'

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

I'm not embarrassed to say I want to be successful, but only on my terms.

The bigger and more successful Salesforce becomes, the more we'll invest in our public schools, the more we will invest in homeless, the more we will invest in public hospitals, the more we will invest into NGOs.

I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.